For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its body, however, was missing. But last month, archaeologists at Cambodia ...

It was discovered by French researchers in 1936 and eventually stored at the National Museum of Cambodia, in Phnom Penh. In May last year, 39 individual fragments of the statue, which originally ...

which the Ministry highly anticipates finally being reunited with its matching torso, currently on display at the National Museum of Cambodia.” ...

The Avalokiteshvara Buddha (center), a sculpture dating from the Angkorian period (10th - early 11th century), at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, July 4, 2024. TANG CHHIN SOTHY ...